Catherine Batess recent publications include Masculity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford, 2013), which won the British Academys Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidneys Defence of Poetry (Oxford, 2017); and two edited volumes, The Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge, 2010) and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry (Oxford, 2018).